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Exchange Pulse Goes Live with SunGard’s MarketMap to Provide Real-Time, Global Pricing Data
Exchange Pulse, a Web-based source for prices, news and information for the sustainability industry, is using SunGard’s MarketMap (formerly Fame) to provide real-time U.S. and European commodity, currency and equity pricing data to Exchange Pulse’s brokers and individual traders via the company’s Web site. Exchange Pulse needed a global, real-time data solution that offered the…
JWG’s Di Giammarino Talks up Data Practicalities of Risk and Regulatory Onslaught
The long list of incoming regulations, especially those that will require the reinvention the risk management wheel, have thrown into the spotlight the need for firms to get a better handle on their operational risk, said PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of think tank JWG at the recent Thomson Reuters pricing event in London. Reiterating his…
ABSXchange Loan Analytics Platform Announces 11 New Clients
ABSXchange, Standard & Poor’s platform for structured finance and whole loan analytics, is pleased to announce it has won a number of new contracts with a series of large financial institutions in Europe. Standard Chartered, Natixis, Amias Berman, Bayern LB, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Harbourmaster, Delta Lloyd, BPV, ESAF, Swiss & Global AM and…
SuperDerivatives Launches Online Revaluation Investigation Tool
A pioneering tool for accurately valuing over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded derivatives was launched today to hundreds of fund managers at the industry’s key annual conference in Monaco. SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark, announced the launch of its Revaluation Investigation and Analysis system (RIAS) to validate valuations for complex and vanilla derivatives in all asset classes,…
Quantifi Develops Cutting-Edge Credit Valuation Adjustment and Counterparty Risk Solutions
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced the release of two groundbreaking new products Quantifi CVA (Credit Valuation Adjustment) and Quantifi Counterparty Risk – currently in beta testing with a select few clients. Rohan Douglas, CEO at Quantifi, commented, “We are very excited to be…
Leading Asset Manager in Japan Relies on SIX Telekurs for NAV Calculation
Finselect, the evaluation price service for the daily evaluation of securities which comply with the former Japanese Pension Fund Association’s guidelines, now has an additional module Finselect MF, which specifically targets the pricing needs of the Japanese investment trust industry. With Nikko Asset Management Co Ltd, SIX Telekurs has gained one of the largest Japanese…
RiskMetrics’ Acerbi Talks up Development of Mark to Liquidity Modelling
Mark to market may be top of the regulatory and industry agenda at the moment, but according to RiskMetrics researcher Carlo Acerbi, mark to liquidity could well be the next big thing in the risk management world. Speaking at Thomson Reuters’ recent Global Pricing Forum in London, Acerbi elaborated on the development of a model…
LakeFront Data’s Richards Joins First Derivatives as President of its US Operations
Earlier this year, First Derivatives bought Reference Data Factory (RDF) for around US$10 million and Dale Richards, CEO of LakeFront Data Ventures and board member of RDF, joined the advisory board of the market data and risk management focused solution provider. Richards, who has since taken a back seat at his own start-up LakeFront Data…
QuIC Appoints Calvert as Chief Technology Officer
QuIC Financial Technologies, a risk management, pricing and analytic solutions provider, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Simon Calvert to the position of chief technology officer. In this position, Calvert will play a leading role in driving QuIC’s technology vision and reinforcing its reputation as an innovator in the industry during the next phase…
SuperDerivatives Appoints Matzliah as Asia Pacific Head to Lead its Aggressive Expansion Across the Region
SuperDerivatives (SD) said today that it has appointed Jacob Matzliah as vice President for Asia Pacific. “Asia Pacific is a tremendous growth area for SuperDerivatives since there is very high usage of sophisticated derivatives and strong need for cost effective front office systems that can enhance capabilities to participate in these markets, both as a…